Teaching History With Musicals

This volume serves as a guide for teaching history with musicals. In addition to covering key themes and concepts, this book provides an overview of significant issues and related musical theatre and film productions, a tutorial in critique, user guides for resources, a model syllabus, and sample exercises and assignments for classroom use.

About the author

Kathryn Edney is assistant professor of history at Regis College, where she teaches courses in U.S. history, historiography, and culture and society. Her writing has appeared in Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater (2007); Sounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film (2010); Movies, Music, and More: Advancing Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom (2011); and The Journal of Popular Culture.

Summary

This volume serves as a guide for teaching history with musicals. In addition to covering key themes and concepts, this book provides an overview of significant issues and related musical theatre and film productions, a tutorial in critique, user guides for resources, a model syllabus, and sample exercises and assignments for classroom use.

Product details

• Authors: Edney, Kathryn Edney, Edney Kathryn
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781442278424
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7842-4
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Teaching History With...; Teaching History with...
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: History, Educational: Citizenship and social education, Educational: Citizenship & social education, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies